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12-PAGE AUTUMN DINING SECTION BROOKLYN Including The Bensonhurst Paper Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 26 Court St., Brooklyn 11242 Phone 718-834-9350 AD fax 718-834-1713 • NEWS fax 718-834-9278 © 2002 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 24 pages including 12 pages GO BROOKLYN GOP holds senior center hostage• Vol. 25, No. 41 BRG • October 21, 2002 Narrows Center will get cash only if Golden wins • FREE By Patrick Gallahue The Brooklyn Papers Gentile in the newly drawn If there was ever any district. ter, on New Utrecht Avenue at doubt how badly the state “To say this money is con- 79th Street in Bensonhurst, Senate’s Republican major- tingent upon his election is Disabled man: needs to be relocated because ity wants Councilman Mar- tantamount to bribery,” Gen- it currently resides in the base- ty Golden in the legislature, tile charged upon hearing the ment level of a building with there are now almost a news this week. no elevator, no windows or quarter-million reasons to The pledge is the latest bathroom would require ma- push by a Republican Senate Marty parked in jor renovations to comply put those questions to rest. majority that has accommo- With the Narrows Senior with the Americans with Dis- dated Golden every step of abilities Act. Center needing a new home, the way, from drawing a new Senate Majority Leader Jo- While the city Department Senate district with lines con- for the Aging and Catholic seph Bruno has promised sidered favorable to the handicap space Marty Golden Charities, which runs the fa- $225,000 in matching funds councilman, to a $7,700 con- BP / File photo cility, have their sights set on Joseph Bruno for a new senior center, but tribution from the Committee By Patrick Gallahue only if Golden defeats in- the Angel Guardian Home, Associated Press to Re-Elect Senator Bruno on 63rd Street between 12th The Brooklyn Papers cumbent state Sen. Vincent made to Golden’s campaign. heavily on Friday morning and his knee and 13th avenues in Borough Councilman Marty Golden, current- The Narrows Senior Cen- Park, seniors who use the was bothering him. ly embroiled in a contentious state “I said, ‘Marty, where’s you’re handi- See HOSTAGE Senate race against incumbent Vincent on page 6 capped sticker?’” Ligammari recalled. “I Laws would protect flag flyers Gentile for the redrawn 22nd district, said, ‘Move it or do something about it. If lost at least one vote this week. you consider people other than yourself, On Friday, Oct. 10, while campaigning I’ll think about voting for you.’” at the Brooklyn Army Terminal ferry land- When asked about the incident on Tues- ing at 58th Street, he was confronted by a day, Golden, a member of the City Coun- Bay Ridge resident furious at the two-term cil’s public safety committee, said, “I Republican councilman for parking in a don’t know anything about it.” handicap accessible spot. However, later that day, his campaign According to Carlo Ligammari, who manager, Bill O’Reilly, blamed a Golden By Patrick Gallahue had driven to the pier to take the ferry to staffer for illegally parking the car and said The Brooklyn Papers Lower Manhattan, all the handicap acces- it was promptly moved after Ligammari About the only thing the city sible spots were taken, one of them filled brought it to their attention. O’Reilly said is willing to let be waived out- by Golden’s Cadillac SUV. Golden’s vehi- the heavy rain limited visibility and that the side Vito Colucci’s Benson- cle bears neither a handicap license plate parking blunder was an honest accident. hurst business is the fine for nor a handicap parking permit. The coun- “It was absolutely torrential rain that raising an unlicensed flag. His cilman is not disabled. day,” he said. “He and his staff didn’t real- state and city legislative lead- Ligammari, who has spina bifida, a ize they were parked there and they ers, however, are still fighting congenital defect in which the spinal col- moved the car.” for his right to wave the red, umn is imperfectly closed, said he has Ligammari said he did not see any ac- white and blue. seen Golden’s car parked in handicap tion taken before getting on the ferry. spaces in the past and usually does not Dennis Boyd, a senior disability lawyer Councilman Marty Golden and state Sen. Vincent Gentile, who are challenge the official, but found himself for New York Lawyers for the Public In- embroiled in a contentious race particularly irritated because it was raining terest, recommends people who see cars against one another for the redrawn parked illegally in handicapped spaces no- 22nd state Senate District com- See PARKING prised of Bay Ridge, Dyker on page 6 Heights and Gerritsen Beach, have both proposed legislation to open the streets to Old Glory. Both bills were written in re- sponse to a fine issued to Colucci by the Department of Sanitation in Brooklyn diocese early August for raising three American flags without a permit on the sidewalk outside his business, Neighborhood Carpet and Floor- ing, at 1864 86th St. sued for abuses Colucci, a 51-year-old Vietnam veteran, unsuccessfully argued his case before the city’s Environmen- Little Miss Norway tal Control Board in Downtown Bishop named in $300 million suit Brooklyn — which adjudicates Rachel Chambers (with crown) won the Little Miss Norway contest during Sunday’s Norsk Festival at Leif Ericson Park. hearings on notices of violations is- The contest was for girls of Norwegian descent ages 7 through 12. Chambers was awarded a round-trip ticket to Flori- sued by other city agencies for var- da, while her competitors each also received gifts. ious infractions of city laws — on By Sara Kugler Sept. 11, armed with a petition of Associated Press 500 signatures. More than 40 adults who say they were sexually With the country targeted by ter- abused as children sued 13 priests and the Brooklyn rorists and on the brink of war The Brooklyn Papers Colucci could not understand how diocese on Tuesday, and accused top clergy of a / Greg Mango massive coverup dating back more than 50 years. See FLAG LAWS on page 10 The $300 million lawsuit, filed by lawyer Michael Funding set for pier memorial Dowd in state Supreme Court in Queens, alleges that the diocesan priests abused at least 43 children from By Patrick Gallahue 1960 to 1984, and that the diocese tried to hide the attacks by transferring priests from parish to parish. The Brooklyn Papers The alleged attacks ranged from fondling to Proponents of a perma- sodomy and occurred on church altars, in rectories, nent Brooklyn memorial to school stairwells, priests’ homes and — in one alleged those who died on Sept. 11, and 11 who perished on Sept. case — at Shea Stadium during a Mets game. Several 2001 gathered on the 69th 11. Guarinello is chairman of of the alleged victims said priests also forced them to Street Pier Tuesday to an- CB11. ing committee for Brooklyn look at pornography. Remembers had raised about nounce that the cash is in “We lost close to 100 people, The plaintiffs in the suit did not want their names if you look across the areas of $75,000 and received pledges made public. Many of the 39 men and four women, hand and the memorial will of up to $90,000 but held off be created. Bay Ridge, Dyker [Heights], who ranged in age from 7 to 17 when they allegedly an announcement until cere- were abused, still live in the New York area. With $90,000 at the ready, Bensonhurst and a little area of Sunset Park,” said Councilman monies commemorating the The suit also names Bishop Thomas Daily and the William Guarinello, chairman one-year anniversary of 9-11 of the Brooklyn Remembers Marty Golden. “It’s a lot of Brooklyn diocese as defendants. The diocese serves people to lose, a lot of families, had passed, Guarinello said. 1.6 million Catholics in Brooklyn and Queens. Memorial Committee, said, Although the group had set a “We have enough to build.” a lot of family members.” The suit alleges that Daily knew about “the exis- target of $100,000 for the con- tence of priests in the diocese who have sexually The memorial will feature Rep. Vito Fossella, who struction and an additional the names of around 100 resi- spearheaded the Ridge memo- abused children in their respective parishes and he is rial effort, said, “We try to $50,000 for maintenance, Guar- similarly aware of the efforts undertaken since becom- dents of the neighborhoods inello was confident that the re- within community boards 10 Rep. Vito Fossella hands IS 30 student Alexandra Loff, 12, a cita- grow out of the tragedy where ing bishop of the diocese to conceal said acts of sexual tion Tuesday for her efforts gathering 1,000 signatures in favor of we can, and look for some maining capital could be raised. abuse and otherwise prevent their disclosure.” a 9-11 memorial on the 69th Street Pier. light, and the light is going to Among the major donors Msgr. Otto Garcia, second-in-command to Daily, is be here someday as we honor was AVR Realty, developers of also named in the suit as “part of the concerted effort the Shoreline Condominiums The Brooklyn Papers those who lost their lives.” to fraudulently conceal” the sex abuse by the pe- / Mango only half a block from the pier dophile priests.

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